I want a good card or two cards, for under $400, that would work for gaming and rendering. Any help would be appreciated. If there's a better / cheaper setup, I'd love to know about it.

Also, how would a 2 gb card compare to 2 1-gb cards? Is there an advantage towards putting them in parallel over using a single high-end card?

Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:59 am

Ulcis

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Joined: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:49 amPosts: 36Location: D-town

Re: Graphics Cards...

I would think it would be more efficient and cheaper to go with two decent cards instead of one top of the line card. Putting the strain on two cards is better than overloading a single card, although you'd have to be sure to get enough power to them as well as figure out an efficient cooling system.

I'm not wanting "I think"'s, though. I'm currently looking at getting two of the cards above and want to know if there's a setup that is better at the same cost or less.

Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:58 pm

tofuman

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Re: Graphics Cards...

I'd recommend www.tomshardware.com as a resource for video card reviews and comparisons. It depends on what software and games you're planning on using. Newer games and software will benefit most from SLI. I'd be inclined to buy 1 decent card and then in 6months when the price of the card has dropped buy another and configure the two with SLI.

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